This allows to have shorter and somewhat cleaner URLs. Also, sometimes Apache is configured to show the contents of a directory to the visitor unless an index.html file is present (in this case the index file is shown instead). So, creating an index.html file, even empty, is an easy way to conceal the directory contents to visitors. Of course, you can also configure Apache so that it does not show the directory contents by default, and for example issues a "​Virtual Directory Listing Denied"​ error if the index file is not present.

This allows to have shorter and somewhat cleaner URLs. Also, sometimes Apache is configured to show the contents of a directory to the visitor unless an index.html file is present (in this case the index file is shown instead). So, creating an index.html file, even empty, is an easy way to conceal the directory contents to visitors. Of course, you can also configure Apache so that it does not show the directory contents by default, and for example issues a "​Virtual Directory Listing Denied"​ error if the index file is not present.

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Let's now learn how we can transfer files, maybe html files that we like to edit locally, or images to be then linked in our html pages, to our remote server ​(this includes uploading and downloading), by using an FTP Client software.

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